How to explore new Insider Preview features

Windows 10 Insider Preview builds offer organizations a valuable and exciting opportunity to evaluate new Windows features well before general release. What’s more, you and other Insiders have the option to provide feedback on behalf of your organization to help shape Windows for your specific business needs. Here’s how to get the most out of your feature exploration:

Recommendations for feature exploration

Release channel

Fast Ring: Insider Preview builds in the Fast Ring are released approximately every week. They contain the very latest features, making them ideal for feature exploration.

Users

Because Fast Ring builds are released so early in the development cycle, we recommend limiting feature exploration in your organization to IT administrators and developers running Insider Preview builds on secondary machines.

Tasks

Explore new features in Windows designed for organizations, including new features related to current and planned line of business applications.

Provide feedback in the Feedback Hub app. This helps us to make adjustments and enhancements to features as quickly as possible.

Encourage users to sign into the Feedback Hub using their AAD work accounts. This enables both you and Microsoft to track feedback submitted by users within your specific organization. (Note: This tracking is only visible to Microsoft and registered Insiders within your organization’s domain.)

How to validate Insider Preview builds

Along with exploring new features, you also have the opportunity to validate your apps and infrastructure on Insider Preview builds. This activity can play an important role in your Windows 10 deployment strategy. Early validation has several benefits:

Get a head start on your Windows validation process.

Identify issues sooner to accelerate your Windows deployment.

Engage Microsoft earlier for help with potential compatibility issues.

Slow Ring: Insider Preview builds in the Slow Ring are released approximately once a month. They are more stable than Fast Ring releases making them better suited for validation purposes. Slow Ring releases can be run on either secondary or primary production machines by skilled users.

Users

In addition to Insiders who may have participated in feature exploration, we also recommend including a small group of application owners and users from each business department to ensure a representative sample.

Provide feedback in the Feedback Hub app. This helps us to make adjustments and enhancements to features as quickly as possible.

Encourage users to sign into the Feedback Hub using their AAD work accounts. This enables both you and Microsoft to track feedback submitted by users within your specific organization. (Note: This tracking is only visible to Microsoft and registered Insiders within your organization’s domain.)

Features may be available in select markets; experience may vary by region and device. Windows 10 Insider Preview may be substantially modified before it’s commercially released. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, with respect to the information provided here. Some product features and functionality may require additional hardware or software.